Building resilience through water stewardship in the technology sector

Water risk is rising and will accelerate. Water risks can negatively impact the operational capacity to physically produce components and goods. How a company responds to water risk may also determine the local license to operate that stems from regulators, communities, civil society organisations and company reputation. Both of these risk types are particularly acute for actors involved in or dependent upon components, sub-assembly manufacturing and assembly/integration where the majority of the water footprint of the tech sector resides.

The time to build a water strategy is now. This is where water stewardship comes in. Water stewardship equips water using companies to take care of something you do not own, that you and everyone in your locality relies upon. At the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) we define stewardship as, ‘the use of water that is socially and culturally equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically beneficial, achieved through a stakeholder-inclusive process that includes both site- and catchment-based actions.’

In this one-hour session Apple, the British Standards Institute and the Alliance for Water Stewardship will outline water risk exposure in the tech sector, what water stewardship is, how it is evolving to recognise the changing regulatory landscape, plans for the introduction of ISO-water stewardship standards and where the opportunities for your company to build knowledge and take action are. Delivered as part of Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) Annual Meeting as part of the Training and Partner Sessions the speakers will equip attendees with the knowledge needed to begin to build a strategy around what will be the pressing climate-related issue facing tech companies in the coming years.

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The Alliance for Water Stewardship’s mission is to ignite and nurture global and local leadership in credible water stewardship that recognises and secures the social, cultural, environmental and economic value of freshwater. AWS is the water partner for RBA, and our members and users in the tech industry include Apple, Cisco, Intel, Samsung and others. To find out more about our work in the tech sector, visit https://a4ws.org/priority-sectors/microelectronics/ict/

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today Apple continues to be a global leader in innovation with products like iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s more than 160,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it. Apple is a member of the Alliance for Water Stewardship.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI is the UK representative in the ISO-Standard landscape. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products and services and also supplies certification and standards-related services to businesses.

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Note: This event is part of the Training and Partner Sessions at the .

Host or Publisher Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)